Monthly Archives: April 2011

A debt collector’s dunning letter trumpeting “tax season savings” and offering a discount for a pay-off did not violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it failed to discuss tax consequences of accepting a discount on the debt, and ...

A woman who pleaded guilty to immigration fraud 10 years earlier is not entitled to a writ of coram nobis on her claim that counsel failed to advise her prior to her plea hearing about possible deportation; an Alexandria U.S. ...

HOT SPRINGS—Lawyers appearing before the Supreme Court of Virginia only get 15 minutes of oral argument. So make sure your best and most persuasive arguments are clearly laid out in your briefs, said Justice William C. Mims. Mims celebrated exactly ...

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court says the girlfriend of a crew chief for a concrete company, who had an accident while driving a company car after drinking in a bar, may be able to show she had a good faith ...

Fairfax Circuit Judge Jane Roush and Abingdon lawyer Mary Lynn Tate provided a “Tort Law Update” on recent cases from the Supreme Court of Virginia at the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association convention on April 2. In particular, they commended the ...

The House of Delegates made quick work of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s veto of legislation that would raise the state’s cap on medical malpractice awards from $2 million to $3 million over 20 years. After barely 10 minutes of discussion, the ...

Portsmouth Circuit Judge James Hawks called the verdict for a merchant seaman “appallingly excessive.” The verdict – for $20 million compensatory damages and $5 million in punitives – was among the largest ever reported in Virginia, but the defendant shipping ...

An injured motor vehicle passenger learned last November that he could get underinsured motorist coverage from his umbrella liability policy in a rare policy interpretation. This month he learned how much he could recover: he gets to tap the full ...

W. Coleman Allen Jr., a late entrant in the competition for a seat on the Supreme Court of Virginia, got a warm reception yesterday from the House and Senate Courts of Justice committees. A pillar of the personal injury bar ...